Latest News and Events   UN-HABITAT launches secure tenure campaign in Thailand. Bangkok, 11 October 2005 – During the week of World Habitat Day 3-8 October UN-HABITAT launched its Global Campaign for Secure Tenure and Cities without Slums programme in Thailand.   read more     Regional Workshop Cities Without Slums Report Some 50 delegates from East, Central and Southern Africa participated in a two-day highly successful meeting on the Cities Without Slums (CWS) programme at the UN-HABITAT headquarters in Nairobi on 22-23 September 2005. They included delegates from the eight CWS participating cities- Addis Ababa ( Ethiopia), Kisumu (Kenya), Kampala (Uganda), Arusha (Tanzania), Blantyre (Malawi), Maputo (Mozambique), Maseru (Lesotho), and Durban (South Africa), who comprised of officials from local authorities, representatives of NGOs, CBOs, HPMs and UN-HABITAT country teams .   read more Launch of the campaigns for Secure Tenure and Urban Governance in Cuba The Urban Governance and Secure Tenure campaigns were jointly launched 26 and 27 June in Cuba. A popular launch in the city of Barrio Las Guàsimas on the 26th was followed by the official launch in la Havana on the 27th.The popular launch saw the participation of the population of Barrio Las Guàsimas and Managua, who interacted with participants invited from several regions and countries where the campaigns are already launched. The representatives of the Philippines, Senegal, Brazil highlighted the role of the campaigns in their respective countries.   read more Sounding the alarm on forced evictions Nairobi, 7 April 2005 - UN-HABITAT Executive Director Mrs. Anna Tibaijuka on Thursday sounded the alarm over increasing cases of forced evictions of the poor around the world saying the practice was thwarting efforts of the Millennium Declaration seeking to improve the lives of slum dwellers   read more AGFE undertakes missions to select countries: The International Advisory Group on Forced Evictions established by the UN-HABITAT in 2004 has embarked on missions to select countries to engage authorities in finding solutions to forced evictions. A team of Network members undertook such a mission to Rome from 16-17 February 2005.   read more   Urban governance and secure tenure campaigns launch in Senegal Dakar, 28 May, 2004 - UN-HABITAT’s Global Campaigns on Secure Tenure and Urban Governance were launched in Senegal this month after extensive preparations over the past two years.   read more   New housing policy targets Kenyan urban slum dwellers Nairobi 24 April 2004 - The Kenya cabinet has approved a National Housing Policy and sent it to Parliament for endorsement to address the urban slum and housing shortage problems, deputy minister for roads, public works and housing, Joshua Toro said.   read more   First meeting of UN-HABITAT’s Advisory Group On Forced Evictions Nairobi, 12 March, 2004 - UN-HABITAT’s Advisory Group on Forced Eviction (AGFE) met for the first time on 5 March 2005 at the organizations headquarters in Nairobi.   read more   Brazil launches national campaign to improve its cities Rio, 7 October 2003 Leading the way in Latin America, Brazil is starting a major new campaign to upgrade its urban areas by bringing concrete improvements in security of tenure, public safety, municipal finance and participatory urban governance.   read more   Cambodian Prime Minister launches slum upgrading campaign July 1, 2003: - Poverty-stricken urban communities in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, are getting a new lease of life with the launch by Prime Minister Hun Sen of a new secure land tenure policy.   read more